Games like Burden
If Burden is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chernobylite Complete Edition, Rem Survival and Survival Classic — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and stressful. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Burden: You’ll see RPG the other way round: choose diseases instead of skills. Survive in the world of limited resources and constant danger.
Players who liked Burden also play
Steam players who put hours into Burden also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Chernobylite Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.
Rem Survival
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Burden.
Second-strongest match for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.
Survival Classic
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Burden.
Third-strongest match for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Try to survive the harsh realities of the cold Siberian countryside. Live long and always remember, man is man's enemy. You can trust no one but it is almost impossible to survive on your own. Choose your path and go to finish. Firefights, transport, crafting and survival.
Crushed
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Burden.
Ranked #4 for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Fargone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Burden.
Ranked #5 for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Burden.
Fargone is an RPG-based survival game with a strong focus on creating a living, breathing world through dynamic events, and NPC interactions. Set in a fictional land known only as The Barrens, you must survive by any means, whether that be alone or by allying yourself with a faction.
Dysterra
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Burden.
Ranked #6 for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Burden.
On a future post-apocalyptic Earth, build, craft, and loot other players’ bases to survive long enough to board the rocket and escape the dangerous robots and mercenaries that inhabit Ararat Island. Manipulate the weather and use earthquakes to change when the server wipe occurs in DYSTERRA!
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Pacific Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Burden.
Ranked #8 for Burden fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Face the supernatural dangers of the Olympic Exclusion Zone with a car as your only lifeline in this driving survival adventure! Scavenge resources, load up your trusty station wagon, and drive like hell to make it through alive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Burden at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Burden.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Action with Burden.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Burden.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Burden.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Burden on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burden.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Burden.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Burden.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Burden.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Burden
- How much does Burden cost?
- Burden is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Burden?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Burden are Chernobylite Complete Edition, Rem Survival, Survival Classic.
- Who developed Burden?
- Burden was developed by Black Book Development.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Burden.
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